Category: administrivia

I have been in a real funk lately. It’s stupid because the more time I spend despairing, the less time I spend sorting myself out and then I fall even farther behind.

So I need to sketch out (har har) a plan for how to proceed. I have to lay out my own infrastructure before I can feel comfortable producing. I have ideas but if I don’t have a clear path to take with them, they’re just going to die on the vine.

So I’m going to make my website the central hub. Each page (except the blog, which I mirror at Substack) will be for a different thing I want to offer. Then when you go to the page, you’ll find links for where to go buy the whatever-it-is.

First priority needs to be some digital downloads. I had a couple great ideas for that and they’ll be in two different places: Ko-fi and Etsy. I need some things that let people support my endeavor without costing a lot and that can potentially fund my living situation — which is very low-cost right now, but still costs — without me having to go looking for any random employer who will underpay me and be just a little too far away such that I am constantly killing myself to get back and forth. (Wow am I glad I’m not writing that on social media.) Anyway, that’s just a distraction from what I need to be doing. This is what I most regret not doing. Time to stop regretting.

Have a look around at the website and see what you think. I’m just as bothered as you are that there’s no art yet. I need to figure that out. Fortunately, the WordPress theme lets me do header photos and I may just bang some stuff up there for right now.

Anyway, I had been quiet for too long. So here I am. RAWR.

Hi! I’m Dana.

Hi, Dana!

I am a fiftysomething woman who suddenly finds all sorts of time on her hands, and I’ve decided to quit fannying about and finally try to pursue this art thing.

I already have a little bit of a knack for graphite portraiture, the occasional urge to do something with art markers, the sometimes dabble with acrylic and watercolor paints, the compulsion to knit or crochet something. (I will not be including yarny stuff in this particular project. Yarny stuff goes here.) I would also like to teach myself some other stuff as I go.

If you just want to follow along, great. If you see something as we go along that strikes your fancy, even better.

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